[Scilab-Dev] Scilab 6.1.0 is available!

Clément David Clement.David at esi-group.com
Thu Mar 5 11:40:44 CET 2020


Hello Sylvain,

I took a look at the trace, it looks like g++ 7 is confused with the xml.h include ; as libxml2 is already protected with ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" you might just move the #include <xml.h> from XMLDocument.hxx:28 out of the extern "C".

Sorry about that but gcc-7 is not our target for official releases, Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora all ship gcc-8 with a more stable c++17 support. I could only help to debug issues on the conda side.

Regards,

--
Clément

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces at lists.scilab.org> On Behalf Of Sylvain Corlay
> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2020 10:15 AM
> To: List dedicated to the development of Scilab <dev at lists.scilab.org>
> Subject: Re: [Scilab-Dev] Scilab 6.1.0 is available!
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Is there any update on the support of GCC 7 for Scilab 6.1?
> 
> This is a major blocker for us to package it for the conda ecosystem.
> 
> Best,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 4:12 PM Sylvain Corlay <sylvain.corlay at gmail.com
> <mailto:sylvain.corlay at gmail.com> > wrote:
> 
> 
> 	Patching the source to use <experimental/filesystem> resolves that
> particular issue with C++17 in GCC7.
> 
> 	However, the Scilab build now fails with many occurrences of the error:
> 
> 	error: template with C linkage
> 
> 
> 	- You can see the raw build logs here: https://dev.azure.com/conda-
> forge/84710dde-1620-425b-80d0-
> 4cf5baca359d/_apis/build/builds/125787/logs/7
> 	- The scilab recipe update including the patches for <filesystem> is
> available here: https://github.com/conda-forge/scilab-feedstock/pull/11
> 
> 	Officially supporting older versions of GCC than GCC 8 (which is from
> May 2018) would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> 	Best,
> 
> 
> 	On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 2:28 PM Sylvain Corlay
> <sylvain.corlay at gmail.com <mailto:sylvain.corlay at gmail.com> > wrote:
> 
> 
> 		Hi Clément,
> 
> 		Regarding the Java, we already skip xcos in the build but we
> were really hoping that we could start including it with this version.
> 
> 		For the filesystem thingy, I will be patching the source as part of
> the conda recipe to use <experimental/filesystem> instead and see how it goes -
> although it would be really nice if we could support more compilers out of the
> box.
> 
> 		Sylvain
> 
> 		On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 2:25 PM Clément David
> <Clement.David at esi-group.com <mailto:Clement.David at esi-group.com> >
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 			Hello Sylvain,
> 
> 			First, thank you for your work on the conda packaging.
> The c++17 requirements is only needed for a single file that is used to implement
> fullpath() (named fullpath.cpp). The used API is reduced to
> std::filesystem::weakly_canonical and std::filesystem::absolute [1]. I guess using
> a light patch might relax the use of the filesystem header, for example,
> something like [2].
> 
> 			About the Java8 requirement, I guess you could
> ./configure --without-xcos as a first approach. I started porting the Java code
> out of javax.xml.bind [3] but that's very repetitive and error prone work.
> 
> 			[1]:
> https://codereview.scilab.org/#/c/21041/25/scilab/modules/fileio/src/cpp/fullp
> ath.cpp
> 			[2]:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45867379/why-does-gcc-not-seem-to-
> have-the-filesystem-standard-library
> 			[3]: https://codereview.scilab.org/#/c/20630/
> 
> 			Regards,
> 
> 			--
> 			Clément
> 
> 			> -----Original Message-----
> 			> From: dev <dev-bounces at lists.scilab.org
> <mailto:dev-bounces at lists.scilab.org> > On Behalf Of Sylvain Corlay
> 			> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2020 1:50 PM
> 			> To: List dedicated to the development of Scilab
> <dev at lists.scilab.org <mailto:dev at lists.scilab.org> >
> 			> Subject: Re: [Scilab-Dev] Scilab 6.1.0 is available!
> 			>
> 			> Congratulations on the release.
> 			>
> 			> I am the author of the conda package for scilab, and
> unfortunately, it does not
> 			> seem that 6.1.0 can be successfully packaged for
> conda-forge with the new
> 			> requirement for the <filesystem> C++17 header,
> which requires GCC 8.
> 			>
> 			> Conda-forge is still based on GCC 7, which is fairly
> recent, with C++17 enabled by
> 			> default. Would you consider not using the
> <filesystem> from the C++17 standard
> 			> so that Scilab can be made available to a wider
> audience?
> 			>
> 			> Another blocker to the packaging of Scilab is the
> outdated version of java that is
> 			> required by the GUI. Is there any plan to support a
> more recent version of
> 			> OpenJDK?
> 			>
> 			> Best,
> 			>
> 			> Sylvain Corlay
> 			>
> 			> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 2:10 PM Clément David
> <Clement.David at esi-
> 			> group.com <http://group.com>
> <mailto:Clement.David at esi-group.com <mailto:Clement.David at esi-
> group.com> > > wrote:
> 			>
> 			>
> 			>       Dear Scilab-ers,
> 			>
> 			>
> 			>
> 			>       A brand new Scilab 6.1.0
> <https://www.scilab.org/download/6.1.0>  is
> 			> released today!
> 			>
> 			>
> 			>
> 			>       This version includes further improvement atop
> Scilab 6.0 for better
> 			> stability and increased algorithm performance. It also
> includes a reworked
> 			> display for more compact and meaningful value
> printing; web tools for HTTP,
> 			> JSON support; better debug support and various
> algorithm rewrite/extension.
> 			>
> 			>
> 			>
> 			>       This first iteration of the 6.1 branch fixes up to 245
> bugs and implements
> 			> missing features from the 6.0.2 version. We would
> like to give a special thanks
> 			> to Samuel and Stephane who have been very active
> this year.
> 			>
> 			>
> 			>
> 			>       If you find any critical issue or instability that might
> need a 6.1.x release
> 			> please alert us <https://bugzilla.scilab.org/> . If you
> are a toolbox maintainer,
> 			> please rebuild your code, upgrade it when needed and
> publish it to
> 			> atoms.scilab.org <http://atoms.scilab.org>
> <https://atoms.scilab.org/> .
> 			>
> 			>
> 			>
> 			>       For the complete list of changes and bugs fixed,
> please take a look at
> 			> the CHANGES <https://help.scilab.org/CHANGES>
> file.
> 			>
> 			>
> 			>
> 			>       --
> 			>
> 			>       Clément on behalf of the Scilab team
> 			>
> 			>
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